Castrating-tool.



No. 665,!00. Patented Ian. I, l90l.

L. JOHNSON. Y

OASTRATING TOOL.

(Application filed Aug. 7, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS JOHNSON, OF OULBERTSON, MONTANA.

CASTRATING-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,100, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed August 7, 1900. Serial No. 26,156. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Culbertson, in the county of Valley and State of Montana, have-invented a new and Improved Oastrating-Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved castrating-tool which is simple and durable in construction, easily and conveniently manipulated, and more especially designed for use on lambs and other animals for docking the tails and ears and cutting off the end of the scrotum and removing the testicles.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspective view of the improvement.

The handles A and A of the tool are pivotally connected with each other at one end by a pivot B, and said handles are extended beyond the pivot B to form the shear-blades O 0, respectively, and said handles are also extended beyond their eyes D D to form the jaws E E of a pair of pincers. The transversely-extendin g edges ll. of the pincer-jaws are preferably serrated, as indicated in the drawing, to insure a firm hold of the cord when pulling out the testicles. The shearblades are in a closed position when the jaw edges E meet, and hence said pincer-jaws E I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 'Patent A castrating-tool, comprising a pair of handles pivotally connected with each other near one end, shear-blades integral with the said handles and extending forward of the pivot, the other ends of said handles being curved and having integral pincer-jaws at their extreinities, the opposing edges of said pincerjaws extending at right angles to the shearblades, and the said jaws limiting the closing movement of the blades, the said handles having a portion lying between the pincers and the pivot widened in a direction at right angles to the direction of the jaws of the pincers and provided in said intermediate widened portion with openings forming eyes, as set forth.

Intestimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

M. H. CLARK, HERMAN ALBRECHT. 

